Instrument for setting buttons



(No Model.)

J. P. ATWOOD.

INSTRUMENT FR SETTING BUTTONS.

Patented May 13', 1884.

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JAMES F. ATWOOD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

INSTRUMENT FOR SETTING BUTTONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,333, dated May 13, 1884.

Application iled October 25, 1883. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES F. ATwooD, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button-Setting Instruments,

of which the following is a specification.

This instrument is especially constructed for the purpose of attaching buttons to fabrics and other materials by means of the wire io fastening shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me October 2, 1883, and numbered 285,7 82, and in accordance with the method described in the specification in said Letters Patent.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved button-setting instrument open. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same in the 2o act of cutting off the ends of the wire. Fig.

3 is a perspective view of the instrument performing an operation below described.

A and B are jaws, pivoted to each other at O, as shown, the jaw A being provided with the spring D, secured to said jaw at one end, and having its free end bearing against the inside of the jaw B, in the usual manner, to keep said jaws apart. The jawA is also provided with any efficient locking device for 3o holding the jaws closed, the one shown being a slide, E, provided with a roughened thumbpiece, E, and a bolt, E, the latter being adapted by operating the slide to move longitudinally into or under an eye or staple, e, se-

3 5 cured to the inside of the other jaw, B. The jaw A is furthermore provided with a needle, F, having the eyes f j", and constructed substantially like the needle shown in the buttonsetting instrument described in the Letters 4o Patent above referred to. The jaw B terminates in a bifurcated end, bent inwardly at about right angles, and forming two prongs,

. H H, as shown. Vhen the wire fastening z has been drawn into the position shown in Fig. 2, (the same as Fig. 9 of the patent above referred to,) the instrument, which has been open in. order to allow the needle F to bc op erated, is closed and locked by means of the slide E, and the wire, held by means of its 5o hooked ends by the needle, passes between the prongs H. By rotating the instrument in the hand rapidly the wire is broken just at that point close to the surface of the cloth, making an even break just at the desired point, and is then drawn between the thick- 5 nesses of cloth in the known manner. The jaws are bored transversely or cut away at J, as shown, and cutting-edges I I formed at the .end of the bore, (the side of the jaws Opposite to the side bored,) whereby the ends of 6o the wire fastening may be clipped or cut off,

if desired.

' In buttons having very small perforations it is sometimes found that the hooked ends of the wire fastening will not pass through, and it is 'necessary to leave one end straight in 0rder to enter the perforations in the button. After such a fastening has been properly placed in the eyes or holes of the button, it .is necessary that the plain end should be' pro- 7o vided with a hook, in order that it may be grasped by the needle. To accomplish this result I lay the plain end of the wire fastening e across the depression K in the end of the jaw A, (sec Fig. 3,) and then press the jaws 7 together. This causes a former, L, provided with the grooves ZZ, to move down into the depression K, causing the wire to be bent around said former into the grooves Z, making the desired hook shape. The upper edges 8o of the depression K are preferably notched at K', the better to hold the wire in position.

The inside of the jaw B is preferably hollowed out at b, in order to receive the needle when the jaws are closed. 8 5

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to Isecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a button-setting instrument, the combination, with the jaw A, provided with a device for en gaging with a wire fastening, of the jaw B, provided with the inwardly-projecting prongs H, between which the wire is held, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a button-setting instrument, the combination of the jaw A, provided with the depression K, and the jaw B, provided with the former L, constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose'described.

3. In a button-setting instrument, the comroo bination, with the jaw A, provided with the depression K, of the' jaw B, provided with the former L, having side grooves, Z, all substanand B, provided with a spreading and a loek- 1o tially as and for the purpose set forth. ing device, the knife-edges I I', needle F, rmd

4. In a button-setting,` instrument, the comprongs H, all arranged and constructed sub- 'q bination, with the jaw B, provided with the sta-ntially as and for the purpose set forth. F former` L ofthe jaw A. provided with the de- D 1 f f pression K and notches or grooves K', substan- JAMES F' ATVOOD tiallyas and for the purpose speoied. Witnesses:

5. The herein-described button-setting n- HENRY XV. XVILLIAMS,

strument,eonsistng, essentially, of the jaws A JOSEPH ISHBAUGH. 

